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Hello Every one. I am starting a new FF called the THE UNEXPECTED and I hope you all enjoy it as you did my other 2 stories. Please leave your comments and reviews so i know if you are liking it. Special mention to Sara who came up with the title and beautiful Cover photo of this story. Thank you so Much Sara for all your help!! Love you lots!!! So without further Adieu I present to you chapter one of ...THE UNEXPECTED

THE UNEXPECTED

Chapter 1

Sugni was walking down the dirt road carrying her small
bundle in her hand , happily listening
to her friend Champa who was telling her about her plans to meet with her boyfriend Rattu after he finishes his work
at the Haveli. Their conversation was interrupted but the sounding of a
horn coming from behind her. Turning around, her face burst into a bright smile
as she saw her Thakur Malick. He stopped
the tractor he was on and smiled back.

"Thakur Malack you? Why are you making all that noise?" she
asked '

"Hey Sugni'tell
me are you why
are you making a trail on the ground
with those clothes? What's up 'you a washer woman now?" He
chuckled.

"Haai Sita
Maiya!" Sugni said
as she saw the shiny sari dragging on the ground behind her, hurriedly she started to
pick it up, while she kept talking. "Thank you
Takur Malick!, Oh Gosh
Roopa mousi would kill me if I
spoiled her clothes! You
know'I had to convince her to lend it to me ' we needed
it for the show!"

"Show?" he asked. Curious as to what she was up to
know, seems like every time he saw her she had some weird
idea to turn into a job'he had to admit she was innovative.

"Yes! A dance program!" she said with a smile,
he looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"You doing Raai
again?" He asked , he could not hide the disappointment in his
voice.

"No no No" She said
shaking her head vigorously. "I told you
I won't do it Naa'this is more like a play for everyone, like they do on the TV'everyone is invited'You will come na'please? I swear
it will be very nice 'not like
Raai!' She said

"When is it?" he asked

"Tomorrow under the old banyan tree in the village center!"
she said

"Tomorrow? 'Sorry I
can't make it I have to go to the
city tomorrow for some work." He said . She looked disappointed.

"Oh" She wished
he could be there.

"But I will wish you all the best
and I hope your show is a
success'are you going to the village center?" he asked. She nodded.

"Come
I'll drop you'that is a long walk!"
he said.

With out hesitation she hopped up
to the back of the Tractor, Champa was looking a little hesitant but slowly followed her friend. Sugni spent the rest of the ride telling
Vickram Thakur Malick about her plans for the show.

A few minutes later
they were at the
Village center, Sugni waved
him bye as she turned
to walk to the tree, where they
began cleaning around the tree, preparing to set the stage for tomorrow.

"I don't understand you
sometimes Sugni," Champa
said as she began sweeping
under the tree. " I mean you
always say that
all the Thakurs wants from us
bedni's is to use us and discard us and
you don't trust any'yet since I came back from the visiting my aunt in the village, you changed'the Sugni
I knew would never talk to a Thakur like
that, or take a ride from one'what
happened you changed your mind about
them?"

"No" Sugni said as she stopped sorting the cloths ' she sat under the
tree. "A lot happened while you were gone last year Champa, but you've been so
busy with Rattu since you came back I did
not get a chance to tell you!'

'Well what happened?" Champa said
'sitting next to her child hood friend.
Both Champa and Sugni were born into the Bedni tribe, both of
them were the daughter of Thakurs, but in the eyes of the
community and law ..they
were father less.

See the Bedia tribe is an old indian tradition where the poor village women dance and entertain the rich and
powerful Thakurs. It is how they make their living . These old school Thakurs, use these poor helpless women for their pleasure, by following some old distorted traditions.

The bedni women
dance raai for these thakurs and
if she happens to catch the eye of one of the Thakurs he can perform her Sardakhi, by placing a veil on her head and paying a small amount of money for her. She then becomes his exclusively
until he is tired of her and then
she is free to move on to another one.

Any children from this union
goes unacknowledged by the
Thakurs their wives and whatever legal
children they have from that marriage. , the girls are destined to join the trade
by 18. The boys
of the bedni's turn into pimps,
and the burden of taking care of the
house falls on the women, and
their ability to dance and
catch the eye of a
rich Thakur.

Sugni's mother Gulabiya, was a bedni, who did her best to
see about her family, she even went
far enough to send he little girl
to get a basic education, much to the disapproval of her two brothers and their
wives who said that
was not required as Sugni did not
need to know to read or write to dance.

But it was that school that made Sugni aware of the fact that the
tradition of the Bedini's was a bad one. She
learnt that there was other ways to make money
other than selling your body. She felt disgusted at the stares she started recieveng from the Thakurs when ever she went to help her mother when she went to do Raai. And she told her mother she would never do Raai or have her Sardakhi done! She would find another way to make
money.

They laughed at her, her mother telling her that
to when so many people are dependant on you'some times you have no choice. At an early
age Sugni would move around the village
looking for odd jobs at the Haveli's
helping the Thakurine's with there
chores. The pay was very
small but the satisfaction was big.

Even Champa was determined not to follow tradition and
she did
the same'until she fell in love with Rattu a village boy, also the Son
of a Badni. He promised he would marry
her so she would not have to . As
she was eighteen , Champa's mother
and Rattu's mother agreed for that union.

Sugni however had her uncles and every
one else breathing down her
neck to start going out and perform Raai. '

Champa was
shaken from her thougts as Sugni started her story:

"See after you left last year, Vickram Thakur
returned to Mahawri, I can't remember him. But
every one said he left here ten years ago to go to the City. You
know the strange thing, there is
a story that his wife Reva Thakurine, was crazy."
Champa looked at her in shock. As
Sugni said'" Yes and he had a hard time controlling
her'until one day she dissapreared
every one though she was dead!
Suddenly one day
months after she shows up out of
the blue! And so he took her and his family
and moved back to Mahawri!"

"What 'where was she?" Champa
asked intrigued

" I don't know'I am just telling you what I heard
from people gossiping'believe me they
were the hot topic around here for months. Especially because Reva Thakurine is so beautiful,
when ever we see her in the car
passing around , every one stops and stares, but My
God she is worse than a
queen'if she sees you looking at her na'she makes such a stink about it
you will think someone is robbing her.!
Thank God she hardly sets foot out
of the Haveli!" Sugni said , seriously

"Sugni'" Champa was now laughing.. "Are you
ever going to get to the point of
the story'you and Vickram Thakur'are you
his bedni?" She asked

"What!!! ARE you MAD!!!" Sugni said horrified.
"No..he is my friend!" She smiled

"Friend?, since when dose a Thakur and a
bedni becomes friends..Sugni 'no no he is fooling you!" Champa sad, she was worried for her friend
now. Sugni was always a smart girl, but Champa grew up in this village and Thankurs and Bedni's here have one
relationship '.She was sure Thakur Vickram was
just waiting for the time to make his
offer for her.

"But he is'you know I met him the
first time when I went to his Haveli to
asks if they would let me help them, I knew
they had just moved in and was
sure they would need people to help clean up. So Reva Thakurine gives me
some of her vases that were
dusty and tells me to wash them. They
were beautiful'I think One cost'.

"Sugni" Champa said exasperated'.Sugni had a habit of
getting side tracked when telling a story
and always had to be reminded to come to the point.

"Aaanyway'while I was cleaning
them one of them broke as I was taking it to her, I swear I almost died, Madam saw the vase on the floor and and started
screaming at me, she told me I had to pay
for it. Champa I was scared ,
then she went inside and came back with a belt and told me I was going to pay one way
or another.!" Champa was looking at Sugni'this was not unheard of for a
thakurine to punish a Bedni if they feel they
were wronged. She went through a few
beatings herself.

"She hit you?" Champa asked,
Sugni nodded.

"She said I had to get
ten lashes to pay 'after the
first stroke I thought I was going to
black out'I was bracing myself but the
second one never came, I look up and I saw him he was
holding her hand back as he took the belt from her'If her lash was so hard I was sure
if he hit me I would die, the look on his face was mad." Sugni said as
she remembered how scared she was thinking he would inflict the
punishment..

"But all he did was glance
my way and tell me to leave, I did
not have to be told twice 'I left, that
evening Ramu Kaka shows up at
home with an envelope telling me that
Vickram Thakur sent my payment for
help and he apologized for what happened. He apologized! I
could not believe it. But I was not going back there that was for sure!"

After that maa got sick really sick she fainted doing Raai, and I needed
help to get her to the
hospital'he was passing by and took us he even paid for
her stay at the hospital. I did 'nt want to take it, but I had no
choice. She was there for a week, and you
know one day when I went to visit I saw him sitting by I
heard him telling her not to worry about
anything, he would take care of it. I was wondering what that meant..then
remembered the money he sent home, the money he paid
for the hospital bill'for
sure I
thought he was just like the others. So as he was leaving the hospital I followed him out'and I
asked what he wanted, I
said "Sugni was not for sale' and Sugni will not dance but I
promise I will pay you back for the bills'.if you give me some time".
He looked at me and said "Vickram
Thakur never has had and will never have a Bedni and he dose
not like the practice of Raai. "

"Really?" Champa said Shocked

"Yes, before I could say
anything he left..just like that' when I
went to my mom..she told me he came to
enquire about her health and he told her he was
looking for some villagers to work in a plantation he was setting up if she was willing to help him by
talking to the villagers .! She was worried that she would not be able to convince them he said all he wanted her to do was get them
to come see him he would take care of
the rest! Well the next day I saw
him in the village and I apologized
for what I said, he said it was ok
and he was glad I was not following the traditions. I don't know Champa , but he seemed different,
not just by talk 'he hired Rattu
and some others and they all say
he treats them well as workers'

Then Mom came home'and Katari
Uncle and Hukum Uncle
started making a fuss about mom
not being able to go out and dance'food was getting low'one night
Hukum Uncle comes home
with Bamsukhiya 'saying he took
an advance for Raai' Mom was fed up
hearing him she got dressed, but
was weak'and even I did not want to
'I could not see a way out..So I
agreed to go." Sugni blinked her eyes to
stop her tears at the memory of that
night..when she had to choose between
her principles and her
mothers life.

So there I was dancing
trying to stay hidden in the group, after the dance I tried to sneak out but before I could I was cornered by two very
drunk Thakurs, I was going to walk away but the held me back saying they
would pay me good for the night." Sugni shuddered.
"Then I saw Him taking to some other Thakurs, I remembered
what he said at the hospital'so I called out to him'he looked at me in shock'but he managed to get me out of it.
On the drive home I had to listen to a
lecture about sticking to your guns'and
not telling stories about our lives.
I told him I had no other choice', but
after that day I decided I
would not let happen again. As Mom recovered she tried getting some of the women and villagers to talk to him'but no one wanted to work for
him..as the other Thakurs did not like that he
was trying to have to women
do any respectable work'and you
know them..they will not go against their ThaKur Mallick. She did manage to get a few and she was
working in the fields with him for a
while, even I joined in things
were going well, then Jwala
Thakur stepped in and told maa she can't
work for Vickram otherwise he would see
to it she looses
everything. I told her not to worry , so what if he was her
Thakur Mallick and my father'how dose it
feel to do something respectable. So she
continued. Then one day we were
called to the village Center 'for
the panchayat!" The panchayat was the village justice system where a handful of
Thakurs pass judgement and punishment
to poor bednis and their families if
they think there were breaking the traditions. What they
said was law'like it or not.

"Jwala accused us of going
against the traditions by siding with Vickram Thakur'he was using maa as
an example to all the other
bedni's who wanted to leave the
tradition of raai. Vickram showed up and tried to talk get them to listen ..but the villagers were scared
to get involved between the two Thakurs
so they stayed quite.

Mom got banned from performing
Raai, you know
it is like a death sentence. I
was still willing to work 'but then
Hukum and Katari said
If I did I would kill them all . But Vickram Thakur was like an angel to us 'he helped us with
food when no one else would..he went back to the panchayat and
some how got them the change their minds about us'mom went back
to Raai'and just to be safe I decided to
leave the fields to and he tried to tell me not to , but I
could not see my family in any
more trouble.He told me he was
always there if I needed help'not
as a Thakur but as my friend 'and he has been since then. " Sugni said
as she finshed her story.

"Wow.." Champa said'unbelievable that a Thakur would do all that!

"You know in the year since he
has been here'many girls have done their Sardakhi'and not once
have I seen him there. He really dose not like it not just saying that."

"Well he is one of a kind!" Champa agreed 'now she understood Sugni's reaction
earlier.

///***** \\\\\*****/////*****\\\\\

Vickram stood
in the fields over looking
the workers performing
their tasks. It was a pity he had
to look outside the village to get other workers when there were so many
here who could benefit from this.

In the ten years
he had been away nothing has
changed. Jwala Singh still has his hands
firmly around these helpless people's throats. He enjoyed making
Vickram work harder..but Vickram was not one to sweat the
small stuff'if he likes his position
of power let him keep it'his
intention in coming back here was not to
show how powerful he was'but really to live a peaceful life where he grew up. He may hate
the bedni tradition that the
village was famous for'but he loved the
land and the quite pace of the village life.

His phone rang and he looked at the caller Id. Reva. Vickram sighed. So much for a quite
life.

"Hello?"

"Sahib..Sahib where are you?" his wife asked.

"I told you
Reva I am in the fields" he said, He herd her laugh sarcastically.

"what do you want ?" he asked
curtly.

"when are we going back, Vickram,
I hate this Godforsaken place." She said

"I told you..we are here to
stay'listen I am not in the mood for this argument'I will see you
when I get home bye." He ended the call.

Vickram wondered
what joke life was playing
on him, eight years ago his
mother insisted that it was high time he got married. She found the girl and against his better judgment
he complied. Reva was easy on the eyes that was for sure, all she had was a brother
Niranjan, her parents having dead years ago.

Soon after marrying her he found
her behavior odd at times she would be
perfectly normal and at other times she
would act literally
crazy accusing him and others of wanting to get rid of her' or
telling him that she hated the sight of
him'what frighten him was her
violent behavior towards others and herself. After consulting a doctor
he was told that his wife was bipolar. He was told to have her
institutionalized'but after leaving her
there for a few weeks he could
not stand to see the way she was being treated. So he took her home
resigning himself to take care of her.

It was not easy but he did. He tried to make the relationship work but it was not easy . Then one day while he was out of town , his mother called him to tell
him Reva left home and did
not come back' he went looking
for her all over 'but did not find her..what he did find was his car in a badly wrecked state, blood stains that belonged to her
covering the seat, sitting in the
woods outside the city limits. After months
of searching he was told to give up'most likely she was dead. After spending eight years
married to her, it was weird not having
to take care of any one. Then he decided to return to his
roots..away from the city life..Just as he was about to leave he was
shocked when Reva and her brother showed
up at his door step.
Apparently she somehow made it
out the car after her accident and made her way
to the street where she was taken to the hospital by
some passers by. She could not
tell them what happened as she
had no memory of it'then one
day in her sleep she was mumbling an address, which turned out to be her
brothers.

After her return she seemed
different though more calm maybe but
she had a mean streak in her that to him
was disturbing. They
way she treated the
servants around here he disliked and
warned her on many occasions not to treat them that way. He put his brother in
law in charge of keeping her calm when he was not
there'but sometimes even Neerajan
can be careless'

Like the day he came home and saw her physically abusing Sugni, that fact that she hit another innocent human being for no
reason was one thing , but seeing
Neeranjan standing there and watching her do it was in excusable. He made sure he took them to task
for it.

She hated life in the village, she said she was
feeling suffocated, and she was doing everything she could to make
his life here miserable as well, nagging him about leaving. Standing there looking around at his land,
Vickram realized he was tired. He could not do this anymore; dealing with her
was slowly killing him. He could not
handle the constant nagging, her erratic behavior. He spent eight years trying to make the best
of it, but no more.

And this time his mother was not
going to tie him down with talks about reputation, responsibility or keeping
his vows. He decided he wanted a divorce'.

ronshaanIF-Sizzlerz

Hey vinnie .. this was much much better then Phir subah hogi .. to b honest you took the story from that jeep track changed some things in the story and wrote it very well.. I guess now the readers will understand why vikram was tired of Reva.

its good to c that u used some of the show stories like the 1st rai and sugni asking help from vikram / vikram helping sugni and her mom in every posible way

JulieDIF-Dazzler

Vinnie I love it!!! Brilliant!! I love how you used the tractor scene and I love that we get to see why Vikram had a tough time with Reva. I am eagerly waiting for the next chapter and please don't take your sweet time about it like me

Vinnie79IF-Rockerz

Hey vinnie .. this was much much better then Phir subah hogi .. to b honest you took the story from that jeep track changed some things in the story and wrote it very well.. I guess now the readers will understand why vikram was tired of Reva.

its good to c that u used some of the show stories like the 1st rai and sugni asking help from vikram / vikram helping sugni and her mom in every posible way

i liked it

continue

you wrote it very nicely !!

keep it up

Thank you Ron, Yes i used the events of the original and just used it to suite my purpose...that I hope makes a little more sense. Keep reading and i hope you will enjoy the rest of what is to come!!!

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